Sometimes the people around us can feel intimidating or stir fear in us. Our friend Terri shares a short story from her own life and then Chris discusses practical ways to deal with fear and learn how to engage others in love.

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🔗 Check out the Escaping Enemy Mode book and resources

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Today's episode is on Skill 16: Recognize Energy Responses. Chris shares the benefits of recognizing the energy responses in ourselves and others. He gives suggestions to help discover your energy style and shares examples of both high and low-energy responders.

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This episodes explores the need to 'quiet' and gives many tips and suggestions about how to implement quieting into your life, using high energy and low energy examples.

🔗 Explore our online courses that are focused on Skill 2: Simple Quiet

🔗 Habit Builder Groups give you an opportunity to practice with others. 

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In this special anniversary podcast episode, Jen Coursey, Executive Director of THRIVEtoday, joins Chris as they reflect on the podcast's first year and look forward to what is coming in future episodes! If you are new to the podcast, this is a fun episode to jump in on.

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Hear from Heather Meades, author of children's book, "Switched on for Joy", about her inspiration for helping children understand relational circuits. Chris also shares some practical tips and stories about helping the children in our lives learn these skills.

🔗 Watch the free webinar: Spreading Joy to the Next Generation 

🔗 Switched on For Joy Children's Book by Heather Meades

🔗 The Joy Switch Book by Chris Coursey

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     3. Watch Your Joy Grow!

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In this episode, our friend Pam shares how she used her relational skills to attune to and quiet with her adult son, and how she has learned how to be a safe person for her adult children to come to at stressful times.

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Following Episode 51, Chris explains the difference between "Bonds for 2" (skill 3) and a family bond (skill 5), and lists reasons both are important and how they affect us.

🔗 Learn more about Skill 5 - Form Family Bonds

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Chris explains what a "bond for 2" is, how it works in the brain and how it naturally grows. He also gives ideas for how to grow a healthy bond for 2 in your brain if you are missing this skill.

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How do we teach children relational skills before they understand the value? In this extended episode, Chris shares some tips and tricks we can use in the course of everyday life to help our kids get the nutrition (relational skills) they need to thrive and grow.

🔗 Watch the webinar: Spreading Joy to the Next Generation

🔗 The Switched on For Joy book is out NOW!

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🔗 The 4 Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Kids book by Chris Coursey

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We all have loss in our lives. Chris dives into why it can be so hard for us, how we can recognize what we're dealing with, and some things we can do to start healing. This podcast addresses Skill 18: Intervene Where the Brain is Stuck. 

🔗 Check out The Joy Switch book by Chris Coursey

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🔗 Take a look at our Habit Builder Courses

🔗 Learn more about Skill 18: Intervene Where the Brain is Stuck

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